Welcome to Part 3 of our four-part series looking back at the most valuable players at each position. We started with centermen, last week we hit left wings, and now we are on to right wings. I think you probably get the gist by now, but we are comparing draft data to player’s end-of-year stats [...]
Last week we started our “Most Valuable’ series by taking a look at the performance of our centremen during the 2021 season. We compared draft data to their end of year stats to get an idea of how well they had lived up to their average draft ranking (ADP). To be a valuable player in [...]
Now that the season is finally under wraps (sorry Vancouver/Calgary) it is time to take a look back and see how things panned out. For this mini-series we are going to take each position and see who provided the most value. We will do this by comparing their draft rankings to their performance rankings. Basically, [...]
Back when I wrote the Wild West column, I started a series based on Rick Roos and his research on unlikely playoff heroes. He looked at players who were performing better in the playoffs than in their previous regular season. He then attempted to figure out if it was predictive of future performance. I went [...]
At times I find myself just exploring the Frozen Tools section just because I almost always find something new to look at or something that catches my eye. It is an incredibly powerful selection of tools and data to answer specific questions and much of what we column in this series is just that. Whether [...]
This week we are going to take a bit of a long and meandering trip. I write this intro after I went down this rabbit hole, and it all starts with the tools available on Frozen Tools. I added some links along the way so that folks can follow along and find the various reports/charts [...]
My fantasy teams this season have had a particular need in net as of late. Because of that I have been paying a bit closer attention to goalies and trying to grab some replacements when there have been injuries etc. I looked at my teams this week and I realized that every single one of [...]
It has been a while since we have specifically looked at some of the wide-ranging offers that Frozen Tools really has. We have been using it to answer specific questions for, but I wanted to take a moment and check back in on some of the basic info we can access, and some of the [...]
Last week we took some time to review draft steals. We looked at players in various ownership tiers and when they were drafted (if they were). We found a number of players who were either drafted late, or not drafted at all but are highly owned now. This week the plan is to flip the [...]
At about the halfway point of the (fantasy) season, it seems an appropriate time to take stock of what we thought compared to where various players have landed. We have had enough games played for most teams that we should be able to draw some conclusions, or at least have some idea of where players [...]
